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Smart People Worry, Really Smart People Worry Logically and Unemotionally

By: Ian Campbell | Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Why Read: Because what is said is worth thinking about in order to
determine what part of what is said you agree with and deal in a logical and
unemotional way with going forward.

Featured Article and MP3: Celente
- It's Absolutely Terrifying Where Society Is Headed On April 16 King
World News interviewed Gerald Celente, founder of Trends Research. Interpreting
what is said at a high level, the article and MP3 speak to the slow, creeping
way obvious and not so obvious changes can occur in societies, and how one
can wake up one morning and find the their world to be a different place
than they perceived it to be the night before.

My Comments: As I read and listened to Mr. Celente, for me the phenomenon
he discusses is nothing more or less than continual societal change where there
can be more net positives, or alternately more net negatives in any given period
of time - where some of those changes are more subtle than obvious, and some
are more obvious than subtle.

One again, for many developed country 'Main Streets' there currently seem
to be more 'net macro-economic negatives'. Hence everyone ought to be as informed
as they possibly can be with respect to important macro-economic drivers including
(to name but three):

Many people either don't focus on these things because they adopt one or more
of the following attitudes:

consider them too complicated;

are so involved with their day/day lives that they don't take
the time to pay attention to them or develop an opinion about them;

adopt an "it can't happen to me" attitude; or,

Adopt an "I can't influence it so why bother worrying about it" attitude.

At a high level, things aren't all that complicated. What happens in concept
and practice at a personal level likewise happens in concept and practice at
a country, government (all levels), and individual level:

the primary economic tenant is 'simple' - a budget has to be balanced
with disposable income over time, or an individual (or family), a country,
or a business runs into financial difficulty or worse; and,

those who learn, think, worry about, form moving opinions on,
and act on those opinions are less likely to 'economically die from a thousand
cuts' than those who, like the proverbial lemming, follow the tail of the
lemming ahead of them without thinking much if at all about where that 'lemming
in front' is leading them.

Think hard about the title of this Commentary. It comes from the mouth of
a smart Industrial Psychologist friend who, in the aftermath of a 'very bad
day at the office' told me: "you can't imagine how many emotionally mixed-up,
very high IQ people are out there flipping hamburgers".

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